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GEORGE BORST, OF ROCHESTER, NEW YORK, Assreivoa OE ONE-EALE T FRED WILL, OF SAME PLACE.

AWNING-FRAME.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,573, dated April 10, 1883.

Application filed February 3, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BORST, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Awning-Frames; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawings,

making a part of this specification, and to'the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a perspective view of my invention as an awningframe; Fig. 2, a similar view when not in use.

:5 The present invention has relation to certain new and useful improvements in awningframes; and the object thereof is to provide means whereby the frame will possess sufiicient strength to bear or support certain weights, thereby adapting it for attaching a rope or flexible ladder to be used as a tire-escape, also a suitable shelf to-be used as a flower-stand or platform for cleaning, painting, or repairing the window or window-casing.

The invention therefore consists in a suitable frame formed preferably of one piece of metal with its ends bent at right angles to form arms by which itis pivotally connected to the casing of a window or otherlike portion of a building, suitable braces being pivotally connected to the outer portions of these arms, and their free ends adapted to rest upon the sill and against the casing when the device is in use, as shown in the accompanying drawin gs and hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, Arepresents a frame formed preferably ofone piece of metal having its ends bent at right angles to form arms B, which are pivotally connected to the sides of a windowcasing or other like portion of a building. To the outer end or about the bend of these arms B are pivoted braces G, which, when the frame is in use, rest upon the sill and against thecasing, thereby forming a, strong and certain bearing, as any weight upon theframe A will come entirely on these braces, and the greater the weight the more certain the support.

It will be readily seen that a device of this character can be easily and cheaply manufactured and connected to the casing ofa window 0 or like portion of a building to form a frame for an awning, the pivoted braces rendering the frame of the required strength to support a rope or rope ladder for use as a fire-escape, whereby the person may be lowered to the 5 5 ground, or, when found necessary, suspending from the frame a suitable shelf adapted to the purpose to form a stand for flowers or a support for a person engaged in cleaning, painting. or repairing the Window or casing thereof.

When the frame is not in use the device may be swung down out of the' way, as shown in Fig. 2.

Having now fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 6 Letters Patent, is-

In a window-awnin g frame, the combination, with the pivoted frame A, of the braces O, pivoted at their upper ends to said frame, the lower ends being free to rest against the window-sill and form a support for the frame, whereby the same is adapted for sustaining heavy weights, substantially as and for the purpose set forth.

In testimony that I claim the above I have 5 hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

GEORGE BORST.

Witnesses:

BERTHA M. MUELLER, J OSEF KIRCHMAIER. 

